Book Industry Study Group

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The BISG Business Solutions Committee

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Making Information Pay

February 4, 2004The Warwick Hotel

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Welcome

Jeff AbrahamExecutive DirectorBook Industry Study Group, Inc.

Ted HillChairBusiness Solutions Committee

Sponsored by

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Introductions

BISG Business Solutions Committee

The mission of the Business Solutions Committee is to promote awareness of business issues, benchmarks and best practices that are currently in use by the book community.

For more information contact: Ted Hill, Committee Chair bizsolutions_chair@bisg.org

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Today’s Agenda

9:00 Welcome & Introductions

“Building an Intelligent Publishing Supply Chain” Michael Cairns, President, R. R. Bowker

“Using Information to Increase Efficiency and Profits” Dominique Raccah, Publisher and CEO, Sourcebooks

“Using Information to Improve Distributor Performance” Jean Srnecz, Senior VP of Merchandising, Baker & Taylor

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Today’s Agenda

10:35 Coffee Break, Sponsored by Nielsen Book  “Intelligence and Insights”

Jonathan Nowell, President, Nielsen Book

“Actionable Analysis of Account-Specific Data”

Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO, Idea Logical Company

Concluding Remarks John Wicker, Executive VP, VISTA International

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“Building an Intelligent Publishing Supply Chain”

Michael Cairns, President, R. R. Bowker

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Thank You!

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